This is the story of the ancestry of Dorothy Prugh Marshall Chacksfield, a descendant of Conrad Bruch and Lucia Marie Finkbeiner, recognized as the progenitors of our American Prugh families.
It primarily covers her Prugh lineage, starting in the Palatinate, Germany, during the 1600s. Her ancestors were devout Lutherans and Reformists who established churches in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio. They fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and the Civil War.
The Prughs are joined by the Barlows of Lancashire, England, Pembrokeshire, Wales and Saunderscourt, Ireland, the Marshalls of England and Pittsburgh, PA, the Hasslers of Switzerland and Mercersburg, PA, and others, including the Coblentz, Kieffer, Haines and Finkbeiner families.
Her lineage is discussed over many generations from 1040 to the middle of the 20th century.